Some pictures after testing my 2.5 conversion

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bernardsam
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Ive recently finished converting my e30 from a 1.8 to a 2.5 and decided take it out on some nice roads lynmouth upto porlock hill. Loving the sound of the straight 6
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Thu May 27, 2010 4:29 pm

Nice. Are they banded steels?
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Thu May 27, 2010 4:34 pm

Yeah they are, there original e30 steelies banded to 8". Im thinking about getting another pair done to 9" or 9.5" for the rear.
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Thu May 27, 2010 4:35 pm

:cool: Loving the blue sky
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Thu May 27, 2010 4:38 pm

so how you finding the m20.whats your fav thing about the 2.5.
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Thu May 27, 2010 4:53 pm

Looking good mate....nice one..........Welcome to straight 6 heaven!
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Thu May 27, 2010 5:01 pm

Moody backdrop! :cool:
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bernardsam
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Thu May 27, 2010 5:05 pm

ETERNITY wrote:so how you finding the m20.whats your fav thing about the 2.5.
Really enjoying it, I like the way it keeps pulling up high in the rev range, great fun leaving it in 3rd/4th in the twisties. I was expecting it to be really crap on fuel but its better than the m40 1.8 I had in there for sure and that wasnt running bad. These are the plugs from the m20 after about 400 miles seems to be running spot on.

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bernardsam
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Thu May 27, 2010 5:06 pm

ChelseaBoy wrote:Looking good mate....nice one..........Welcome to straight 6 heaven!
Cheers bud!
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Thu May 27, 2010 5:35 pm

Looks a very cool car mate, good luck with future mods. :cool: :cool: :cool:
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Thu May 27, 2010 5:54 pm

trevski wrote:Looks a very cool car mate, good luck with future mods. :cool: :cool: :cool:
Thanks nice getting good comments after the hard work :) .

Some more pictures of the engine etc on my build thread.
http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... 61#1878761
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Thu May 27, 2010 8:35 pm

nice car mate!
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Fri May 28, 2010 12:20 am

Great stuff. Nice understated with beasty 6 under the bonnet. The steels are much cooler than bling. HOW GOOD is the scenery? Where is Lynmouth? What exhaust are you using?
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Fri May 28, 2010 2:18 am

good luck nice car
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bernardsam
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Fri May 28, 2010 11:10 am

xavier wrote:Great stuff. Nice understated with beasty 6 under the bonnet. The steels are much cooler than bling. HOW GOOD is the scenery? Where is Lynmouth? What exhaust are you using?
Cheers xavier Lynmouth is on the north Devon coast. The exhaust is a scorpion system would of preferred a genuine bmw system but was to complicated to find out what I needed also the scorpion was pretty cheap at £400 including downpipe.
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Fri May 28, 2010 10:51 pm

looks nice like the banded steels thinking about getting some for mine. and yea i no what you mean about fuel my old e36 1.6 drank more than my e30 2.5 dose sounds mad :mad:
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Sat May 29, 2010 12:01 pm

Looks very nice, interesting choice with the wheels, do they ride well ??
Liked the thread about the engine build,
(Looking at the parts though, is that the right sort of cat for that 2.5 engine ??)
Keep the pictures coming,
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bernardsam
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Sat May 29, 2010 2:27 pm

Alpina99 wrote:Looks very nice, interesting choice with the wheels, do they ride well ??
Liked the thread about the engine build,
(Looking at the parts though, is that the right sort of cat for that 2.5 engine ??)
Keep the pictures coming,
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Cheers, yeah the wheels ride fine one of them had to have a fair amount of weights tho, I would love to drop it a bit lower on them but id proberley end up regreting it living in bumpy devon.

You had me confused for a minute about the cat hahaha.
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